Christmas Outreach in Peruvian Amazon

As I promised in a previous blog, here are the photos to one of the JOY BAG outreaches that 

we've done this year.  This one was just a few days ago in the remote village of Poyeni, Peru.

This even has great meaning to me because I was in this village in the mid-1990's and

fell in love and served the parents of these Ashaninka children when they were just children.

It is further sweet to me because it was headed up by Lourdes, (this is her home village.)

She is now a grown woman who I've known since 

she was a small girl living in a children's home outside of Lima.

I first did Poetry Art to benefit this orphanage and the Ashaninka children who came

from this very village, who called, "Camino De Vida" home.

(This orphanage is one of the many outreaches of Life Ministries/Karyn and Robert Barriger)

Many of my collectors may recall a print from that period called, "Lourdes' Dream"

This is the actual person who inspired the poetry to that piece of art.